To get your full retirement benefit, you need to be 65 or older. That will be in the year 2040.
Retirement income for the elderly.
According to the Social Security Administration, the maximum benefit for a worker retiring at full retirement age is $2,116 per month in 2007. That is $25,392 per year. So the answer is yes. However, in order to receive that benefit, one must have had an annual income at or near the taxable maximum in the years leading up to retirement ($94,200 in 2006).
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Social security benefits are based on your income, adjusted to represent current value; however, there are minimum and maximum benefit levels.
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Yes you can choose to receive your monthly social security check in the mail if that is really what you want to do.
For the year 2004 the maximum earnings subject to the 6.2% social security tax was 87,900. For the year 2004 the amount was 5449.80 maximum contribution amount to the OASDI program social security benefit program.
I'm not familiar with the legislative history behind this. However, one explanation would be that although there is a maximum Social Security benefit, there is no maximum Medicare benefit.
The age for retirement varies depending on the amount of time you have worked. For a list of Social Security benefit requirements go her to the governments social security website found at www.ssa.gov.
Social Security retirement checks are subject to FICA taxes (Social Security and Medicare taxes) unless an individual has already reached the maximum taxable earnings limit for the year. Once the maximum limit is reached, no further FICA taxes are deducted from the retirement checks.